Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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Between 1971 and 1984 Foucault wrote several works, including
Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison (1975;
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison), a monograph on the emergence of the modern prison; three volumes of a history of Western sexuality; and numerous essays. Foucault continued to travel widely, and as his reputation grew he spent extended...

history of philosophy

In later books such as
Discipline and Punish (1975) and
The History of Sexuality (1976), Foucault’s gaze shifted to systems of power. In a Nietzschean spirit, he coined the term
power-knowledge to indicate the involvement of knowledge in the maintenance of power relations. As he argued in the essay “
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977),...

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